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Top Public Interest Law Schools

Posted on November 12, 2008
The November 2008 issue of ranks the Top 60 law schools for public interest law, determined by an equal weighting of three categories: Student Involvement: "The student involvement category assigned points for student activity and percentage of graduates of the...

19th Annual Philadelphia Tax Conference

Posted on November 12, 2008
The 19th Annual Philadelphia Tax Conference kicks off today. For a list of speakers and their topics, see here.

Financial Bailout NOL Tax Break to Cost CA $2b

Posted on November 12, 2008
Following up on Monday's post, Tax Lawyers Decry Financial Bailout NOL Tax Break for Banks: L.A. Times, Bush's Tax Breaks for Banks Could Cost California $2 Billion, by Evan Halper: Even as California's fiscal woes mount, the state is slated...

Obama Backs Crackdown on Tax Havens

Posted on November 11, 2008
The Guardian: Obama Backs Crackdown on Tax Havens, by Nick Mathiason & Heather Stewart: President-elect Barack Obama plans to crack down on international tax havens, including Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, within weeks of taking power in January,...

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House Mulls Changes in Tax Treatment of Derivatives

Posted on November 11, 2008
Dow Jones: House Ways and Means Staff Weigh Tax Changes For Derivatives, by Martin Vaughan: House Ways and Means Committee staffers are exploring a possible rewrite of tax rules governing financial derivative products. The effort, still in its nascent stages,...

Law Student Pummels Intruder Who Tried to Steal His Laptop

Posted on November 11, 2008
From Tempe, Arizona TV station KPHO and Above the Law: ASU student Alex Botsios said he had no problem giving a nighttime intruder his wallet and guitars. When the man asked for Botsios' laptop, however, the first-year law student drew...

Lipman: The Undocumented Immigrant Tax

Posted on November 11, 2008
Francine J. Lipman (Chapman) has posted The Undocumented Immigrant Tax, in Undocumented Hispanic Immigrants in America: Problems, Benefits and Prospects (University of North Texas Press, 2008). Here is the abstract: "Illegals do NOT pay taxes." As a law professor researching...

IRS Announces 2009 VITA Grant Recipients

Posted on November 11, 2008
The IRS yesterday released (IR-2008-127) a list of the 111 organizations in all 50 states and the District of Columbia that received $8 million in matching grants to support its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program in 2009. 379 organizations submitted...

Tax Rates During the Great Depression

Posted on November 11, 2008
From Alex Tabarrok via Greg Mankiw [click on chart to enlarge]:

Building a Better LSAT: Predicting Lawyer, Not Law Student, Success

Posted on November 11, 2008
Following up on last week's post, UC-Berkeley: Testing for Empathy as an LSAT Alternative?: Today's Inside Higher Ed: Building a Better Admissions Test, by Scott Jaschik: Most standardized admissions tests ? from the SAT and ACT to those used for...

Bailout Bill Provides AMT Relief for Stock Options

Posted on November 11, 2008
Wall Street Journal: Bailout Bill Provided Tech Workers With Tax Relief for Stock Options, by Scott Thurm: The recent $700 billion rescue package to bolster the financial system also threw a lifeline to thousands of people who owed taxes on...

Fleischer Presents A Theory of Taxing Sovereign Wealth Today at USC

Posted on November 10, 2008
Victor Fleischer (Illinois) presents A Theory of Taxing Sovereign Wealth, 84 N.Y.U. L. Rev. ___ (2009), at USC today as part of its Center for Economics, Law and Organization (CLEO) Workshop Series. Here is the abstract: Sovereign wealth funds enjoy....

U.S. News: Is Obama Planning to Hike Top Rate to 45%?

Posted on November 10, 2008
Details here.

Tax Lawyers Decry Financial Bailout NOL Tax Break for Banks

Posted on November 10, 2008
Following up on my prior post: What Is the IRS's Authority for Expanding Bailout Tax Breaks?, which discussed Notice 2008-83: Washington Post: A Quiet Windfall For U.S. Banks; With Attention on Bailout Debate, Treasury Made Change to Tax Policy, by...

Shaviro Presents The Long-Term U.S. Fiscal Gap & Generational Inequity Today at Loyola-L.A.

Posted on November 10, 2008
Daniel N. Shaviro (NYU) presents The Long-Term U.S. Fiscal Gap: Is the Main Problem Generational Inequity? at Loyola-L.A. today as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium Series. The commentator is Theodore P. Seto (Loyola-L.A.). Here is the Conclusion: Current U...

The Rankings Treadmill

Posted on November 10, 2008
Chronicle of Higher Education: Most Colleges Chase Prestige on a Treadmill, Researchers Find, by Peter Schmidt: The pursuit of institutional prestige has done little to improve the reputations of most colleges and, in fact, may be causing many of them...

Using Taxes to Reform Health Insurance

Posted on November 10, 2008
Using Taxes to Reform Health Insurance: Pitfalls and Promises (Henry J. Aaron & Leonard E. Burman, eds.) (Brookings Institution Press, 2008): Few people realize that one of the nation?s largest health programs runs through the tax system. Reformers of all...

Law School Faculty Recruitment Should Emulate Medical School Match Program for Residents

Posted on November 10, 2008
Tax Prof Bridget J. Crawford (Pace) proposes that law school faculty recuitment emulate medical school matching programs for residents: The main beneficiaries of a matching system would be schools that historically have difficulty in recruiting their first, second, or even...

Deloitte Releases Report on Obama's Tax Plan

Posted on November 10, 2008
Deloitte has released Tax Policy Decisions Ahead: President-Elect Obama's Call for Change: [The report] summarizes the broad tax proposals made by President-elect Obama on the campaign trail, and the challenges of moving his agenda through Congress. It then analyzes proposed...

Polsky: Private Equity Management Fee Conversions

Posted on November 10, 2008
Gregg D. Polsky (Florida State) has posted Private Equity Management Fee Conversions on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Because of the uproar over "carried interests," it seems that almost everyone knows that the tax law currently allows private equity managers...

Mehta: U.K. Corporate Pilgrims: Managing in the New World

Posted on November 10, 2008
Nikhil Mehta (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, London) has published U.K. Corporate Pilgrims: Managing in the New World, 52 Tax Notes Int'l 409 (Nov. 3, 2008): Nikhil Mehta provides information about running a company in the United Kingdom as a...

Mombrun: An End to the Deadbeat Dad Dilemma: Allowing a Deduction for Child Support Payments

Posted on November 10, 2008
Reginald Mombrun (North Carolina Central) has published An End to the Deadbeat Dad Dilemma? Puncturing the Paradigm by Allowing a Deduction for Child Support Payments, 13 Fordham J. Corp. & Fin. L. 211 (2008). Here is the abstract: This paper...

TaxProf Blog Weekend Roundup

Posted on November 10, 2008
Saturday: Closing the Tax Gap Symposium Today at Stanford Melissa Etheridge to Stop Paying $500k/Year in CA Taxes After Passage of Prop 8 University of Chicago 61st Annual Federal Tax Conference Henderson: The Impotence of Delaware's Taxes iTax: The Taxation...

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads

Posted on November 09, 2008
There is a bit of movement in this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with a new paper debuting on the list at #5: 1. [447 Downloads] A Brief Analysis of Governor Palin's Tax Returns for...

What Is the Appropriate Tax-Base for President-Elect Obama's High-Income Household Tax?

Posted on November 09, 2008
David P. Bernstein has posted What Is the Appropriate Tax-Base for President-Elect Obama's High-Income Household Tax? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: President-elect Obama has proposed taxing high-income individuals and using the funds to improve the solvency of the Social...

Web-Savvy Young Make Bad Jurors

Posted on November 09, 2008
U.K. Telegraph: Web-Savvy Young Make Bad Jurors Because They Cannot Listen, Says Lord Chief Justice, by Christopher Hope: Young people brought up with the internet are not used to listening for long periods and would not make good jurors, according...

Brunori: Governors Ask Feds to Bail Out States

Posted on November 09, 2008
David Brunori (Executive Vice President of Editorial Operations, Tax Analysts) has published Governors Ask Feds to Bail Out States, 50 State Tax Notes 319 (Nov. 3, 2008): An increasing number of governors are requesting that the federal government write their...

The Pension Protection Act's Destruction of Fractional Giving

Posted on November 09, 2008
Elizabeth Dillinger (J.D. 2008, Missouri-Kansas City) has published Comment, A Not So Starry Night: The Pension Protection Act's Destruction of Fractional Giving, 76 UMKC L. Rev. 1045 (2008). Here is the Conclusion: Fractional giving was a practice that significantly benefited...

Closing the Tax Gap Symposium Today at Stanford

Posted on November 08, 2008
Jim Repetti (Boston College) and I are presenting The Estate Tax Non-Gap: Why Repeal a 'Voluntary' Tax? today at the Closing the Tax Gap symposium at Stanford Law School. Here is a list of panels and speakers: Welcome and Introduction...

Melissa Etheridge to Stop Paying $500k/Year in CA Taxes After Passage of Prop 8

Posted on November 08, 2008
The Daily Beast: You Can Forget My Taxes, by Melissa Etheridge: Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I get it. 51% of you think that I am a second class citizen. Alright then. So my wife, uh I mean, roommate?...

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